Our Leaders

Bernadette has over 20 years of experience in financial services, conducting and managing a combination of business and information technology initiatives.  Through her career, she has supported many of the nation’s largest private financial institutions, Government Sponsored Entities and the Federal Government.  Her knowledge of the industry spans from mortgage origination, servicing, capital markets and investor activities.  Bernadette also spent ten years with KPMG’s Mortgage and Structured Finance Practice providing strategic research, operational and financial advisory services to clients.  While with KPMG, she was responsible for managing multiple complex projects and providing business and technical support to various clients.  Bernadette started her career at Prudential Insurance Company.  She is a respected expert on mortgage related issues and has authored several articles and published many research studies for a variety of clients. Bernadette received a B.S. in Finance from Villanova University and an M.B.A. from Seton Hall University.

He has served on the RiskSpan Board of Directors since co-founding the company in 2001. Joe led the design and launch of RiskSpan's flagship product Velocity -- a web based analytic solution that combines INTEX deal library, loan level data and flexible prepayment and credit models.  Velocity is used by top tier hedge funds, banks, credit unions and fund administrators. Prior to founding the company, Joe was a Managing Director at UBS responsible for CMO and Mortgage Derivative Trading. Prior to UBS, he was a senior mortgage trader at Greenwich Capital Markets and Credit Suisse First Boston. He holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering from UC San Diego and an M.B.A. from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA.

Suhrud has developed pricing models for MBS, created a database to assist in prepayment model development, implemented risk management reports for a CMO desk, and modeled CMO deals in INTEX. He supported derivative MBS by developing analytical models and tools and has designed and implemented a security backbone to support a reporting system for risk management of trader portfolios. At RiskSpan, he developed the analytical framework and prepayment and credit models as well as market monitoring tools. Suhrud has also provided advisory services in the area of portfolio valuation. He is a well known industry speaker given the innovative steps he has taken throughout the credit cycle. Suhrud earned an M.S. in Computer Science from Pennsylvania State University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from VJTI, Bombay India.

Jim previously served as Vice President, Finance Systems & Services at Fannie Mae, where his responsibilities included business process design, program management and production support for enterprise finance systems as well as overseeing corporate procurement, accounts receivable, accounts payable and payroll. Prior to his role at Fannie Mae, Jim held a series of senior positions at BearingPoint, eSignSystems and the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). At MBA Jim served as the association’s CIO and expert on mortgage technology and was co-founder of MISMO (Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization). In addition to an undergraduate Bachelor of Science degree, a Masters in Business Administration from the American University in Washington, DC, Jim is a Certified Mortgage Technologist (CMT) and is a Faculty Fellow of the Mortgage Bankers Association School of Mortgage Banking.

Jones has over 25 years of experience in mortgage lending and housing finance, particularly related to FHA, VA, RHS, and Ginnie Mae. Jones most recently served at Bank of America (BOA), hired in 2004 as BOA’s Government Lending Executive where he managed the build-out of the FHA and VA businesses. He was subsequently named BOA’s executive for Default Management Public Policy and National Outreach.  In this role, he testified before the United States Senate Banking Committee and the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) Congressional Oversight Panel on BOA’s loss mitigation practices.  Previously, Allen worked for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) as Senior Advisor to the Federal Housing Commissioner and as Special Assistant to the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Single Family Housing.  At Freddie Mac, he managed the development of Freddie’s automated underwriting systems for FHA and VA Loans.   In addition, Allen worked at KPMG Consulting, where he managed the FHA’s TOTAL scorecard development. A 1985 graduate of the University of Richmond, he has also served on the Board of the Virginia Housing Development Authority and has authored numerous articles for Mortgage Banking magazine.

Pat is an experienced executive who has been responsible for the management of an asset securitization program for a national financial institution.  He has experience in the development and implementation of business unit objectives, management of a $4 million operating budget, and the oversight and monitoring of service levels with legal resources, accountants, and other financial institutions that supported an industry leading asset sales program. Pat is a skilled manager experienced in the development of business strategy that leads to business process change and technology implementation.  He is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and received an M.B.A. from Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland

Previously, Cindy worked at Fannie Mae in a number of different capacities, most recently as Director of Strategic Planning – Business Transformation for the Credit Loss Management division. In this role, her team designed and launched the HomePath® marketing strategy for the $14.9B real estate owned portfolio which included a B2C website, www.homepath.com, HomePath Mortgage® products, and quarterly marketing campaigns. She was also responsible for the development and implementation of a comprehensive REO training program which included the development of the first formal REO Sales Guide for managing and marketing Fannie REO inventory. Prior to her REO responsibilities, she led specialized teams in the development of the Operational Risk and SOX infrastructure for Fannie Mae’s Single Family Mortgage Business and developed innovative eMortgage products within Fannie Mae’s eBusiness division. Earlier in her career, she was a manager with BearingPoint Financial Services and she held positions in Internal Audit for Banking and Mortgage institutions as well as led teams in FHA Servicer Operational and Foreclosure Claims Reviews.  Cindy holds a B.S. in Accounting from University of North Carolina, Wilmington, is a Certified Internal Auditor and is a trained Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. She is also an inventor of two patents designed to facilitate process improvements in the mortgage industry: Patent No. 7,974,918, Credit Risk Framework; and Patent No. 8,078,512, Document manifest and publication in association with dataset quality control.

Patricia leads engagements in the areas of finance and accounting including valuation of assets using fair value methodologies, mortgage servicing rights valuation and policies, securities and whole loan valuations. She assists clients to develop and document appropriate discount rates for valuation and prepare audit ready documentation. In the finance area typical engagements include data cleansing and analysis, modeling, validation of financial and credit models, development of pricing models, servicing enhancement strategies and benchmarking. Patricia has over 20 years of wide ranging professional experience from Investor Relations to Accounting and Financial Management. She has worked for a GSE, a conglomerate, and various public companies. Her Capital Markets experience includes performing due diligence and company valuations, working with investment banks on corporate restructuring and conducting road shows for IPOs. She has been an oversight and voting member of an Investment committee that managed a large portfolio of RMBS and a member of a GSE Pricing Task Force. Prior to GSE employment she worked for Deloitte & Touche where she managed a variety of public and private sector engagements. She received a B.A. in Economics and a B.A. in English from Boston College and an M.B.A. from Georgetown University. She volunteers for non-profit and foundation boards and serves as a volunteer Treasurer.

John has over forty years experience in the financial field ranging from trading to securities evaluations. He developed the taxable pricing service for S&P and was one of the founding fathers of EJV/Bridge Information systems now Thomson Reuters. In addition, he was responsible for building a pricing business for the ground up. John has also been the director of pricing for BlackRock, and more recently the global head of pricing at Alliance Bernstein. In his current position at RiskSpan, he brings the vision of the needs of the buy side community to the vendor side. He is a member of the Investment Company Institute (ICI) and he sits on the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) pricing panel for Best Practices for Investment Management firms.

Through various consulting engagements, Scott has helped a diverse set of institutions measure and mitigate their credit risk. He led the development of a loan loss allowance process for a bank with a multi-billion dollar mortgage portfolio and helped its loss mitigation team measure the effectiveness of their loan modification programs. He has also helped build credit and prepayment models used by the federal government to evaluate portfolio risks. And he designed and manages the quarterly NRMLA Reverse Mortgage Market Index that estimates market potential for reverse mortgages. Prior to joining RiskSpan, Mr. Anderson worked in Capital One’s Strategic Finance group, which evaluated the firm’s business line performances and strategic options from a risk and market perspective. Prior to working for Capital One, Scott was a research associate at the Urban Institute, a public policy think tank. Scott received his A.B. in Economics from Princeton and his M.B.A. with a concentration in Analytic Finance from the Chicago Booth School of Business, both magna cum laude.

During his career, he has supported many large and small private institutions and federal agencies by conducting and managing business and technology initiatives to include data and cash flow model development, asset valuations, assumption development and benchmarking, business requirement and documentation development and internal controls mapping. Derek began his career at KPMG Consulting and KPMG LLP in the Structured Finance Group where he supported and led engagements in areas of data and cash flow analytics and modeling, due diligence, risk analysis, and business-technology integration. Derek holds a B.S. in Engineering Science and Economics with a Minor in Management of Technology from Vanderbilt University and an M.B.A. from the University of Florida.

At RiskSpan, Tom has worked as a manager supporting multiple clients with business process analysis, control reviews, end to end business process documentation (work flow diagrams/ Visio), financial model validation and development of model risk management policies. As a lead business process/ internal controls manager, Tom’s tasks include reviewing procedural and technical documents, interviewing subject matter experts, leading group work sessions, documenting cross functional processes, identifying procedural and internal control gaps, recommending system, process and control enhancements and assisting with implementation plans based on recommendations. Prior to joining RiskSpan, Tom was a Program Manager at Freddie Mac, managing a team of project managers and com